Hi,
im trying to add a new tab to the river called "news".
I would like to have only important entries in the Tab e.g. user xyz created a new video or user added event x.
Entries like user a is now in contact with user b or user a joined group c should not displayed in the tab.
My Problem is that i don't know how to add entries like mentioned above. e.g. all videos by all users.
Thats part of the code i have:
...
$rivernews = array();
foreach (elgg_get_entities(array('type'=>'object','subtype'=>'videos')) as $video) {
$rivernews[] = $video->getGUID();
}
//$rivernews[] = elgg_get_logged_in_user_guid();
$content.=elgg_list_river(array('subject_guid'=>$rivernews));
i know how to show all entries by logged in user with elgg_get_logged_in_user_guid();
or like in the contact tab all posts from contacts.
my foreach loop displays all entities. the video subtype filter doesnt work as any filter subtype doesnt work. so i think theres something wrong, and it displays the default (-> all)
So any advice how to filter types of entries (subtypes of entries) from all users?
thanks for your time and help!
Kamelot
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You must log in to post replies.river activity is fetched via this pages script code -- elgg_list_river($options) -- to filter at this point, the options will need to be specified as you want for the data that you want. Have a browse thru this API call to study it's syntax and parameters and then you should be able to tweak it for the filtering - to your liking.
thanks for your help.
I browse thru the API and tried filtering several times without getting a result.
I'm very new to elgg and php, so it would be very nice if you can give me an example for blog posts or videos or something else.Thx!
Activity stream (river) and entities are two different things. The API for the listing river items (elgg_list_river()) doesn't support filtering entities by metadata, which is what you'd need to do.
What you can do instead is use elgg_list_entities_from_metadata(array('metadata_name' => 'tags', 'metadata_value' => 'news')); You will still need to override the views for the river to add the UI components, though.